Socialist activist claims

Da’Shaun Harrison, a queer and trans afropessimist and anarcho-communist, says GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are used as a weapon of genocide against fat people.

“In the years following COVID-19, drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Zepbound and Mounjaro moved from endocrinology clinics into mainstream conversation and were praised as breakthroughs that could finally solve what other medicine, policy and culture have long understood to be an intractable problem: fatness”

Harrison's talk

Harrison spoke at a Chicago 'Socialism' conference last month with a talk titled 'Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (Health Fascism Series).'

Conference details

The conference, which enforced mandatory N-95 masks, brought together thousands of socialists and radical activists for discussions on social movements, abolition, Marxism, decolonization, and working-class history.

Harrison's critique

Harrison claims GLP-1s are fascistic because they align capitalism, public health, and anti-black desire around a body ideal that punishes fat people.

“The political deployment of GLP-1s is fascistic. Not because individuals take them, but because the conditions under which they become necessary are shaped by a world fixated on genociding fat people.”

Academic connection

Harrison is part of 'fat studies,' an academic journal exploring how fat people are oppressed and who benefits from that oppression.